The Steam Deck library is huge, virtually innumerable, as extra video games proceed to make their method to Steam and platforms past. Despite the seemingly ever-increasing library for the hand-held, Valve continues to do what it could possibly to assist customers discover high quality experiences, with the corporate just lately hitting a brand new milestone.
The ‘Deck Verified’ compatibility program has confirmed invaluable because it first launched again in October 2021, a number of months after the Steam Deck itself. Maintained by Valve and moderated by the group, the ‘Verified’ and ‘Playable’ compatibility classes proceed to assist shine a lightweight on a few of the finest Steam Deck video games on the market.
There at the moment are formally over 14,000 Steam Deck suitable video games by Valve’s depend, in keeping with the newest figures on SteamDB. Extra particularly, there at the moment are 9,416 ‘Playable’ video games with one other 4,607 ‘Verified’ making up the remaining, for a complete of 14,023 on the time of writing.
It’s taken Valve slightly below 29 months to get to this determine, not forgetting the three,924 video games the corporate has deemed unsupported, bringing the full variety of video games it’s examined as much as 17,947 (that’s round 619 video games a month). Whereas this tempo is inarguably admirable, there’s nonetheless a method to go earlier than we even get near getting an official phrase on the 146,548 Home windows titles on Steam, a quantity that may solely proceed to develop.
This huge unknown will probably and understandably by no means be absolutely catalogued and explored however this after all doesn’t negate the worth the Deck Verified system affords to Steam Deck customers, and eventual Steam Deck 2 adopters. In actual fact, it’s a key a part of what makes the gadget distinctive within the face of rivals just like the ROG Ally, serving as a welcome guiding hand as you seek for that subsequent sport to tackle the go.
Sure, the system isn’t as excellent, because the launch of Remnant 2 demonstrated and the variety of ‘Unsupported’ video games that do actually work on Steam Deck with just a few tweaks. Regardless of its imperfections, processes may be refined, as evidenced by the elevated variety of video games getting Steam Deck compatibility scores forward of launch quite than sitting within the limbo of ‘Unknown’ for various lengths of time.
Reality be informed, I’ll mourn the day Deck Verified involves an finish as these statistics are the results of consideration and care from testers from each inside Valve and the broader Steam Deck group. It’s this sense of communal contribution that makes the gadget probably the greatest handheld gaming PCs on the market, and this program is in some methods proof of that. Right here’s to the following 14,000 and even simply 14 video games that make the reduce.